River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-04-07
COUNTRY LIFE AND WORK.
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Wind River and Paw Of Bear;
And IN sign that foes friends.
Each lodge like peace pipe sends
Its smoke in the quiet air.
The hands thar have done the wrong
To right the wronged are strong.
And the voice OF Nation saith:
''Euongh OF the war OF words.
Enough OF the lying swords
And shame of a broken faith.'
The Ute the wandering Crow
Shall know the whise men know,
And fare the white men fare:
The pale and red shall he brnthrts,
Ones Tiehts shall G - anothers
Home, School, and II use OF Prayer
o mountains that climb 70 snow,
Q river winding below.
Through meadows by war once trod,
o wi waste lands that await
The harvest exceeding great
Break forth INTO praise OF God
John Green esf Whit CT in Atlantic Monthly
for April.
MILK AT LESS THAN ONE CENT A QUART.
Experiments have been made at the
Massachusetts agricultural experiment
station to determine the cost of quart
of milk when feeding various kinds of
food in different combinations. These
consisted of bran, shorts, corn meal.
gluten meal (the refuse from gluclosc
factories), hay, corn fodder, and corn
ensila re- The result is reported rs
follows: ''in feeding the bran, or
shorts, corn meal and gluten meal, 4
,a.rl,f g.Fz Il.
of the foods were also combined, maxi
ing 64 lbs. TO feed each COW daily, and
at times a combination of three kinds
was used, making % lbs. feed daily to
each COW. The remaining food was
either hay, dry corn fodder or corn
ensilagc. The highest amount of hay
eaten by any cow in one day was 20 lbs,
and no ensilage 50 lbs The apparent
bulk of the ensilage over the hay, as
shown by weight, may be explained by
the fact that the hay is dry while cnsil-
age is juicy. The highest cost of milk
per quart was from Il liberal hay and
grain feed, being 2.03 cents per quart.
The milk produced at the lowest cost
was from moderate feeding of cnsil-
age and corn meal, and was but 0.83.
cents per quart 1t may be noticed,
therefore, that quart of milk produc-
ell by feeding hay and grain cost as
much as p quarts produced by feed
ing ensilage and corn meal, and so far
as the quality of the milk was concern
ed under the various conditions of feed
given, no serious alteration IN IFS com
position was noticed '-Nati0nai Lire
Stock Journal.
ARAB AND PERSIAN HORSES.
The general run Of Arabs are no
doubt first-rate horses, as far as they
90, for military purposes, but they are
too email to mount satisfactorily any
but native cavalry. There are, of
course, exceptional animals. which have
size and power enough for anything,
but they are so few that they may be
left ont Of the general estimate which
we take of the race. For any soldier
whose weight is such that he can be
mounted on an Arab he will be found
the hardest. soundest. and most docile
of Warehouses Tie will do an enormous
amount of work on a very little and very
Indifferent food, and will always bear
himself well and handsomely. In one
point only is he, more then other horses.
susceptible of disease. and that is his
eve, which is liable 10 cataract. His
great characteristic is his undaunted
pluck. which is never more clearly
shown than when by any chance he is
i'll. when all veterinary surgeons will
allow that he is a most admirable patti
ent. resisting and throwing Off the ef-
fleets of illness or treatment in a way that
no horse of another race can equal.
Persian horses have always been found
among the most generally useful re-
= ants in India, and they take their
place both in the ranks of cavalry and
in gun teams. They have more power
and size than Arabs, with much of the
same constitutional good qualities, and
IA matter of great Importance to the
State-they are generally cheaper in
price.-BlackJcood'S NdgqEiRe
RAISING CALVES By HAND
An Iowa farmer tells the readers of
the Inter-Ocean how be raises calves,
and, as the reader will observe, he raises
a good many. He says:
In most cases it is supposed to be
good policy to follow nature. But here
is evidently an exception to that rule.
In the estimation Of some people, it IS
too much trouble to raise calves by
hand - others think they "will do better
if allowed to run with the cows The
trouble of teaching a calf to drink milk
is Of short duration, while separating IA
hungry calf from the COW twice a day
for three months is rs troublesome a
task as care for, to say nothing of my
sympathy for the poor hungry thing
And if calf that is fed regularly three
times per day on a ration of skim milk,
with the addition of little bran, shorts,
or oil meal, is compared with one that
has the usual fate Of being knocked in
the head with the milk pail, the adj
vantage viii be decidedly in favor Of
the former. Ionce made an estimate of
the value of the milk a calf would con
sumo while getting n miserable living
sucking the cow. and found il to be
worth about $l2, while scrub calf
would he worth at weaving time about
50. What is there then to offset this 81
worth Of milk and about 81 worth of
trouble.
I have within the past few years
raised nearly one hundred calves by
hand, and [ enjoy the satisfaction of
having the most likely herd of cattle in
this vicinity. | have even had grade
Short-horn steers that would take
premiums. but for the fact that our fair
officers are too aristOcratic to encourage
anything but thoroughbreds.
The serious trouble of getting the
seours. so frequent with calves, may
usually be avoided by the exercise Of
great care. to have everything done with
strict regularity in the way of time.
amount, temperature, degree of rich
ness in feeding.
The proceeds of my ccws have, by
accurate figures. been $50 eachpcr year.
the most of this being from butter. l
cannot afford to let the calves rob the
churn, even if l should have better
calves As the results. A calf should have
new, warm milk directly from lite moth-
er for at least ten days, then begin to
add Il little warm skim milk. increas-
ing this gradually for two or three
weeks longer, until skim milk alone is